Enric Marco
Enric Marco (c.1920) claimed to have been a prisoner in German Nazi concentration camps Mauthausen and Flossenburg in world war II. He was awared the Geroge cross by the Catalan government in 2001 and worte a book on his experiences. In 2005 he admitted it was a lie and returned his medal, after it was revealed by university researcher Benito Bermejo.
"I admit I never was interned in the Flossenburg camp, though I was in preventive detention accused of plotting against the Third Reich," said Marco. He was released after a few weeks of maltreatment and returned to Spain in 1943.
Marco represented for many years the thousands of Spaniards who had truly been deported to concntration camps by Franco.
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The Times, 14 may 2005. Memories of Hell Enric Marco, 1978.
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